Converting crt to PEM
Took two steps:
openssl x509 -in input.crt -out input.der -outform DER
openssl x509 -in input.der -inform DER -out output.pem -outform PEM
I had one of my computers die a short while ago. I wanted to get the data inside its disk into another computer. Using the magical and rather cheap USB2SATA I was able to connect the disk, however, the disk was part of a software mirror (md device) and had LVM on it. Gets a…
I have had recently the pleasure and challenge of setting up VPN server for mobile devices on top of Linux. the common method to do so would be by using IPSec + L2TP, as these are to more common methods mobile devices allow, and it should work quite fine with other types of clients (although…
Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18 (same as for modern Fedora Core) with SecureBoot will result in the following error when running the command /sbin/vboxsetup The error message would be something like this: There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root. If your system is using EFI Secure Boot…
Recently, bonding module requires IPv6 module. There are two possible solutions. The first is to define zeroconf to off, by adding the following line to /etc/sysconfig/network : NOZEROCONF=yes The other method, which actually disables IPv6 is to insert into /etc/modprobe.conf the following line: options ipv6 disable=1 That should do the trick. You will need to…
Due to a major disk crash, I have had to use my ‘other’ computer for VPN connections. It meant that I have had to prepare it for the operation. I attempted to login to aJuniper-based SSL-VPN connection, however, I did get a message saying that my 64bit Java was inadequate. I had a link, as…
I have described in this post how to setup RHCS (Redhat Cluster Suite) for ZFS services, however – this is rather outdated, and would work with RHEL/Centos version 6, but not version 7. RHEL/Centos 7 use Pacemaker as a cluster infrastructure, and it behaves, and configures, entirely differently. This is something I’ve done several times,…